I keep seeing people saying that AI is good because it can "replace" a lawyer for people who can't afford one. And that sentiment is SO FUCKING DANGEROUS. Because our right to representation in this country is so precious and so fragile.
Guildencrantz
@sigh.lol
Platform Engineer trying to prevent Software Engineers from inflicting themselves on others. LEGO. Coffee. Huffing filament fumes. Roll Wave! Up the Pids!
Soften up a horror film The Cabin in the Woods with the Japanese Bidet
Preeti Chhibber@runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 18h agoSoften up a horror film The Craft: A Look Back at Needlepoint Through the Decades
parents, please make sure check your kids' halloween candy for instances of the number 4
Vote people! It may not be enough in the end but having huge number on our side will make it much harder to dispute.
Gladwell continues to fail to do anything other than pile evidence on my take that he's an intellectually and ethically flaccid grifter.
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 2w ago“In recent years, many Americans have decided that their country’s problem was that it had too many police officers, when in fact its problem was that it had too few,” Malcolm Gladwell writes:
This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.
I'm pretty sure if there's one thing that could shift a decent amount of that trillion dollars it'd be insuring the looping track.
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2w agosentient
All you Libby users borrowing digital books and audiobooks through your library cards, you can set your preferences to human authors and artists ONLY. Click the middle button at the bottom, then "Content Controls" under Settings. You'll find "AI Contributions" there. Click in to it to make changes.
Any sufficientl̶y̶ ̶a̶d̶v̶a̶n̶c̶e̶d̶ t̶e̶c̶h̶n̶o̶l̶o̶g̶y̶ p̰r̰ḛp̰a̰r̰a̰t̰ḭo̰n̰ is indistinguishable from m̶a̶g̶i̶c̶ c̰h̰ḛa̰t̰ḭn̰g̰.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoSULLIVAN: We weren't supposed to get these questions beforehand, were we? MODERATOR: No, neither one of you got questions beforehand PELTOLA: I'm prepared!
Got curious about Haaland's ability to stay onside so I took @futi.live data, built an xOffside model, figured out which pass types and phases of play matter, ranked the best offside traps and onside attackers in the PL, translated it to goals and dollars and wrote it up in ESPN No you need a hobby
Why does Haaland score so many goals? Because he's elite at staying onside
We know what a dominant scorer Erling Haaland is, but it often goes unnoticed how good he is at avoiding a striker's worst enemy: the offside trap.
espn.com
John Muller@johnspacemuller.com · 2mo agoWould love to see someone try to put an expected goal value on Haaland's supernatural ability to stay onside
can't take "LLMs are people" discourse seriously when we haven't even convinced everyone that all people are people.
“Women wearing short shorts to the gym does not make them whores. It makes the men calling them ‘whores’ misogynists.”
Dan Levy Calls Out Shane Gillis’ ‘SNL’ Monologue and Says ‘More Men Need to Be Standing Up’: ‘Speechless That Something Like That Can Exist on Live National Television’
"Schitt's Creek" star Dan Levy is calling out Shane Gillis' "Saturday Night Live" monologue, saying that "more men need to be standing up."
variety.com
i have now seen the straight pride flag for the first time and my jaw genuinely dropped. you're right heterosexuals, strict binarism, black and white thinking, is a kind of imprisonment, 10/10 no notes
> For marvin (NixOS, headless), bash is actually fine — it's headless and doesn't need zsh's fancy features. *screams in Platform Engineer*
"if we make the sign look like the start of a horror movie then maybe the test numbers won't be so bad".
T. Greg Doucette@gregdoucette.bsky.social · 3w ago::low whistle:: apple.news/AbOgHERrCRnG...
Who went through all the major platforms where the Pentagon might stream their barbaric firing squad "livestream" execution to see if it violated their policies? Me. I did it.
Techdirt@techdirt.com · 3w agoHey Platforms: Your Violent Content Policies Are About To Meet The Pentagon’s Firing Squad There is plenty of coverage everywhere you look about how Pete Hegseth and... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/09/hey-platforms-your-violent-content-policies-are-about-to-meet-the-pentagons-firing-squad/
Denver’s mayor says tonight that the federal government is suing the city over its policy that no law enforcement here can be masked. “We will fight to the very end on this battle,” says Mike Johnston.
